Neil Pursey: Brands can, and should, ensure that their ads don’t appear on fake news sites
A recent investigation by News24 revealed that many of South Africa’s biggest brands were inadvertently funding fake news sites. In...
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Paula Hulley: Business success and online brand safety go hand-in-hand
The definition of good business practice is being able to evolve in parallel to the rapid changes, opportunities and even...
William Bird: The upside to “fake news”
“Fake news”. It’s a poor term, and much like an advertisement for penis extensions, its promises to deliver are inevitably...
Adriaan Basson: The high price of fake news
Have you ever clicked on a story in your Facebook timeline that you knew wasn’t true? I have. "Pope Francis...
Natasha Ndlebe: When ‘fake news’ became the word of the year
Last year, the Collins Dictionary named "fake news" as the word of the year. The phrase famously gained prominence with...
Reggy Moalusi: Breaking news, fingers first
Editing a daily newspaper in the digital age of video, WhatsApp, Twitter, and to some extent Instagram, has its exhilarations...
George Claassen: Fake news and the natural selection of ignorance
A decade after the multiple award-winning British journalist Nick Davies warned that the mass media are acting more like a...
